On April 21, the Bronx Zoo welcomed a new foal to its herd of endangered Przewalski’s horses. “This foal is wildlife conservation in action — fewer than 2,000 Przewalski's horses exist globally,” a ...

It sure is a beautiful day in the neighborhood. The United States Postal Service has just announced the winner of its Stamp Encore contest, which encouraged members of the public to vote on 25 stamps ...

Situated on Staten Island with stunning views of Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan, the Alice Austen House is a historic landmark that celebrates the life of a trailblazing queer photographer from the ...

A husband and wife team are on a mission to break the generational cycle of domestic violence. In 2019, Taimalelagi Mataio (Matt) Faafetai Brown and his wife, Sarah, founded their campaign She Is Not ...

Though artificial intelligence is making it easier than ever to produce images, music, and text, the technology is also making it harder for the people who have traditionally produced this work to ...

When animation director Daniel Chong first started brainstorming for the Pixar film “Hoppers,” penguins kept popping up on his drawing board. But after another producer pointed out that animated ...

For many birds, survival depends heavily on their beaks. Beaks are used for eating, hygiene and even fighting, so a broken or deformed beak can often be a death sentence. But for one kea parrot, an ...

This weekend, an event called Rededicate 250 will be taking place on Washington, D.C.’s National Mall. Organizers of the event, a group called Freedom 250, describes it as a “national jubilee of ...

Ten years ago, a group of 26 women, ages ranging from early fifties to mid-eighties, decided to fulfill their dream: Living together in harmony, with no men in sight. They created Britain’s first ...

Life is pretty easy for the four African elephants who reside at Zoo Atlanta. If Kelly, Msholo, Tara, and Titan lived in the wild, they would be foraging for food and remaining alert to keep their ...

On November 18th, locals in Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica saw a rare sight: A baby two-fingered sloth clinging to the back of an older three-fingered sloth. Unfortunately, there was no mother nearby, and ...

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. On a Tuesday night in April, beneath a sky mottled with clouds, a slick stretch of road in Cumberland, Maine, ...